Quotes About Recovery

We're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again.

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.

Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended

Nothing cures like time and love.

I'm gonna love you like I've never been broken I'm gonna say it like it's never been spoken

The problem I've got is that I really, really like drugs. I love everything about them. It is horrific being sober all the time-utterly awful.

If you are bitter, it will eat you up and do you much more damage than the people who have hurt you

I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now.

If you feel incomplete, you alone must fill yourself with love in all your empty shattered spaces

I love watching people get hit in the crotch. But only if they get back up. If their teeth are bleeding, if they're really hurt, if an ambulance has to come, I'm not laughing.

The damaged love the damaged. True fact.

It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out.

If it takes you apart, that's not love. Love puts you back together.

You still go to therapy?" "Nah. I gave up years ago." "Mental health isn't for everyone.

He shakes his head and grimaces. "I need to get my own place, like, yesterday." "So why don't you?" He taps his head. "Brain injury. There are things I can't do." "Like what?" "Like remembering what the fuck it is I can't do." He opens the passenger door and throws himself down in the seat.

Grief can be catered just like anything else.

The best treatment for alcoholism is religious conversion.

so I took the benzodiazepines.

The rot must be revealed before something sound can be put in its place,

If someone is badly hurt at some point in life—traumatized—the dominance counter can transform in a manner that makes additional hurt more rather than less likely.

it is much harder to extract someone from a chasm than to lift him from a ditch.

Set aside some time to talk and to think about the illness or other crisis and how it should be managed every day. Do not talk or think about it otherwise. If you do not limit its effect, you will become exhausted,

If you promise you will get better instead of dying, I promise I will, too.